outwork

Verb

outwork (third-person singular simple present outworks, present participle outworking, simple past and past participle outworked)

1. (transitive) To work more, faster, or harder than (someone else).
   • A few may be able to outsmart him, but no one can outwork him.
   • And I am one of those people who is indefatigable, in the true sense that I beg someone to find someone who can outwork me.2009, Bill Boggs, Got What It Takes?
2. (obsolete, rare) To work out to a finish; to complete.
   • For now three dayes of men were full outwrought, / Since he this hardie enterprize began [...].1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto VII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC

Noun

IPA/ˈaʊtwɜːk/

outwork (countable and uncountable, plural outworks)

1. (countable) A minor, subsidiary fortification built beyond the main limits of fortification.
   • Beyond the castle, scattered outworks offered some protection for the farther-flung peasants.
2. Agricultural work done outdoors in the fields.

   Synonyms:

   fieldwork